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Friday, September 9, 2016

Gonzo Label Announcement

Hey everyone!

Your lovable Admin is back with another
brief announcement. This time I just want to speak briefly on my new
label—Gonzo— an what it means if you see it with a post.

Essentially, a post with a Gonzo label is
something which is frivolously written. Think of Gonzo Journalism: it is
colloquial, informative, but very casual and in your face; it is a sort of
journalism which strives for factual representation of events but does not care
much for the formality of the academy. Accordingly, this is what my own Gonzo
label does: Gonzo identified posts are rude, vulgar, and down-to-earth in ways
which ‘Notes,’ ‘Musings,’ or ‘Reviews’ simply are not.

Gonzo labels mark posts which may, or may
not, have a sort of meta-narrative complete with characters. If such characters
exist, they exist as framing devices—a means to an end. They extrapolate
information in a fun narratological fashion, a kind of entertainment as you
learn.

What sort of information do these posts—and
possibly their resultant characters—communicate? Simply put, the information is
just another way to disseminate content I have learned from academic reading.
In truth, such posts are little different from ‘Notes’ or any other kind of summation;
the qualitative difference lies within their crude tone and predisposition to
act as framing devices.

I decided to start this label because I
wanted a space to speak more frankly about some of the details I have been
studying. I wanted to write in a more entertaining manner but I did not want to
start a whole new blog where I would do nothing but re-hash what I post here;
such would be trivial and tedious. So, hosting it here, where informal academic
content makes up the bulk of the day-to-day publications, seemed the most
obvious; it is, after all, nice to have a break from academic rigor once in a
while.

So, with that being said, enjoy the
upcoming Gonzo posts! The first is later today in the afternoon—12:00 p.m.
sharp!